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Sunday, 6 March 2011

Mexican Sugar Skulls

I have been playing around with ideas today, trying to think of something to do with the table top ...bought some Mexican Sugar Skulls images from etsy.com you can buy them here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/60018823/sugar-skulls-digital-collage-413-sheet
They come as small images perfect for making badges or pins but I have photographed some with my macro lens and messed around in photoshop to remove the background colour and printed one out - could look good pasted as a decroative pattern on to my kitchen table top....figuring it out - don't want them to sit side by side but may paste them on in to a radiating star shape or something.

I love all things Mexican since spending so much time being there - thinking of doing up the Edwardian chairs I bought on ebay last week by painting them in hot Mexican colours, maybe one in hot pink, one in turquoise, one in orange - and the last one could be yellow or red or green.....saw some fab tassled orange trim that would work well on them too - bring on the Mexican bling. It's bringing back memories of being in the arts capital of Mexico...Oaxaca, amazing place.
As seen in US crafting magazine Stuffed .......Nosferatu as a soft toy!

chilli squid!

Me and my friend Lucy are totally addicted to Wagamama - chicken ramen and chilli squid - heaven.

Little Isobel

Way late but this is our dear friend's Sandra and Tony's little girl Isobel - when they came to visit us last October...been meaning to post this up for ever because she's rocking the Nippaz with Attitude Mama Ain't Raisin No Fool babygrow and just looking all round lovely. They live across the water too far away on Vancouver Island, so I don't get to see them when I want anymore which SUCKS!

Wednesday, 22 December 2010

December 2010: Snow in London

We woke up on the morning of my birthday and realised our weekend plans (a 40 minute drive to see Dave's Mum and Dad) would have to be re-scheduled. We got 4 inches of snow in 2 hours. This was the view from our deck around 11.30am.
The front door to the house, our flat is on the top floor.
So we went for a walk about in Chiswick and I took some photos on my new Canon pocket camera for the days when I am too lazy to drag around the SLR. Dave bought me it for my birthday and it's great.
Our road.
On the green in Chiswick about a 15 minute walk from the flat.
Dave throwing a snowball for Bruce on our road......he would have to have one hell of a bowling arm for it to reach Seattle!
Me in the snow on our road
The railway tracks at our local overground station where I catch the train to work....pretty much all the trains were cancelled but a fox came out to have a look around.
Our flat is at the very top in the roof
The local bus got stuck on the railway bridge at the end of our road and had to be abandoned til they could get it towed.
Tomorrow we fly to LA to stay with Danny and look forward to sunshine and getting out of this freezing hell!